New Nonprofit Reality Ahead, Report Says
The nonprofit world isn’t going to simply bounce back a few years from now to the state it was in before the recession.
By Caroline Preston
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African Conservationists Raise Money With Blog Posts
Once a week, in a remote part of southern Kenya, a few Maasai tribesmen take a break from their work in the bush to fire up a solar-powered laptop and start blogging. The men are known as the “Lion Guardians.” For the past two years they have been chronicling their attempts to save Kenya’s…
By Caroline Preston
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Social-Media Contests Bring In Donations and Enthusiastic Supporters
Somewhere on YouTube, there’s a video of a guy named Aaron biking 30 miles from downtown Washington to the suburbs and back in his underwear. Aaron isn’t an exhibitionist; he’s an enthusiastic volunteer for a nonprofit group called Atlas Service Corps. He promised to buy a pair of tight white…
By Caroline Preston
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Literacy Charity “Tweets” to Publicize Its Work
Everybody Wins USA wants to get children so excited about reading that they will consume stack after stack of books. But the literacy charity has found that messages of just 140 characters can help strengthen its relationships with volunteers and donors. Everybody Wins uses the “microblogging” Web…
By Caroline Preston
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Tiny Charity’s Twitter Campaign Raises Big Sums for School
Two days before last year’s Thanksgiving, Stacey Monk sent out a series of messages on Twitter that would turn her tiny charity, Epic Change, into a case study on how to raise money using social-networking Web sites. “What are you grateful for? Happy #Tweetsgiving!” she wrote. Her “tweets” included…
By Caroline Preston
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Charities Look for Ways to Unlock the Benefits of Social-Media Tools
As more groups experiment with online social networks, some are finding they are a useful way to publicize and encourage participation in fund-raising campaigns.
By Caroline Preston
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Celebrities Ben Stiller and Lance Armstrong Joust Over Charity
Celebrities Ben Stiller and Lance Armstrong joust over charity
By Caroline Preston
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Volunteers Are Neither ‘Saints nor Teddy Bears,’ Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
Stop treating volunteers like saints, plus more: Thursday’s roundup
By Caroline Preston
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Five Charity-Evaluation Groups Mount Effort to Educate Americans About Smarter Giving
Five charity-evaluation groups mount new donor-education effort
By Caroline Preston
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Humanitarian Groups Mount Supreme Court Challenge
Humanitarian groups mount Supreme Court challenge
By Caroline Preston
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